Featured Galleries
Shades of Gray and in between with a little color creeping in . .
Updated: Apr 07, 2009 11:13am PST
Galleries
Florida is truly eye candy - I have moved all the birds to a differen ...
Updated: Jun 22, 2008 1:32pm PST
From my most recent trip to the left coast.
Updated: Dec 30, 2007 2:03pm PST
From my western travels, these are all slide scans, some from slides a ...
Updated: Jan 20, 2008 11:57am PST
Mostly from a few dives in Viequez, Puerto Rico, but a few from other ...
Updated: Dec 19, 2007 2:53pm PST
For a great Maine seacoast experience, I highly recommend a sunset sai ...
Updated: Dec 06, 2007 5:02pm PST
Just what it says - no color allowed here. OK, some sepia maybe a litt ...
Updated: Nov 15, 2009 5:29pm PST
In, on, under and near the water. The ocean, seas, lakes and rivers.
Updated: Sep 04, 2009 3:24pm PST
In, on, under and near the water. The ocean, seas, lakes and rivers.
Updated: Sep 22, 2009 10:42am PST
Places and things I think of as only American.
Updated: Jul 21, 2008 7:16pm PST
Rome, Venice, The Dolomites, Florence, Siena and the Chianti Classico ...
Updated: Oct 30, 2009 8:07am PST
A week at the Beach - Garden City, SC - 100 degrees in the shade, 82 i ...
Updated: Aug 22, 2008 4:08pm PST
Fly fishing on the Ramapo River in New Jersey. Most of America will n ...
Updated: Dec 24, 2008 12:56pm PST
Shades of Gray and in between with a little color creeping in . .
Updated: Apr 07, 2009 11:13am PST
Fishing the Catskills, on the Beaverkill, Willowemoc and a gret float ...
Updated: Jul 11, 2009 12:36pm PST
Urban Life - Street Photography in various cities.
Updated: Sep 04, 2009 10:12am PST
Your Bio
I have 2 rules of photography.
Rule one: The equipment is no more important than the artist's brush, but good brushes help.
Rule two (this is the important one) Photography is the art of selective elimination.
My first camera was a Zeiss Super Iconta B folding 120 roll film camera that my dad gave me in the early '60s. If you know what that is raise your hand. Eventually I scraped up a few bucks to trade that classic in on a new Nikkormat. Oh, well, I was young. I spent the next few decades working with 35MM Nikons, a twin lens Rolli, then a Bronica S 120MM SLR that usually worked. I gave up trying to make a living in photography and got simple for another couple of decades with cameras that fit in my pocket and fell back on my 2 rules. Digital cameras were a natural fit for me. I sold all my darkroom equipment and never looked back. I still have a 35MM Nikon and 5 or 6 lenses and that balky old Bronica, but their shutters are still now. I currently have a Canon A80 that has an underwater housing and uses AA batteries which can be very convenient, a new Olympus Stylus 1030 that is waterproof to 10 meters and fits in a pocket and a Nikon D80 that feels really sweet in my hands. The Nikon 18 - 135 zoom replaces 5 lenses I used to carry back in the day and the 70 - 300 covers the rest of my usual range and that VR is oh-so-nice. I could not resist a 50mm 1.4 just for old times sake and on the DX format, it's rather like the old fast Nikon 85mm from days gone by.
I still believe it's not the equipment that makes a good picture, but the equipment is a joy nonetheless and it certainly does help, especially with digital equipment. When it comes to pixels, more is more and VR is awful nice.
Also - it's very hard to decide between fishing and photographing. . .
Another thing: There are a lot of fine photographers in the world and I love and admire their work. You can see a lot of them here on Smugmug.
